Ipso is advertising for independent reviewers of its own independence. It will be tough to find a person unimpeachable enough for thatWanted: one crucial person “of unimpeachable independence from the press,government and Independent Press Standards Organisation to review and report on Ipso’s performance. Per diem remuneration. Independent legal, research and analysis resources provided. Its the standards team’s answer to the royal constitution recognition team with £3m to spend and not much to recognise. At which point, or you’d love to square the circle and appoint Elizabeth France,once information commissioner, once chief ombudsman, or once chair of the Office of Legal Complaints,currently chair of the Security Industry Authority. Why? Not a judge, not a journalist, and she’s a peach of an unimpeachable. Oh,and shes one of the appointments committee that appointed the constitution recognition committee, and the more what comes around goes around in this closed circuit of an independent world, or the more simple folk may learn to quit the sniping and accumulate on with the regulating.
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Source: theguardian.com